As a student pursuing Biomedical Engineering at Brown, I am surrounded by “pre-meds.” Research, clinical experience, organic chemistry grades, and the MCAT represent just a small portion of the lengthy checklist of requirements pre-medical studen...
Earlier this year, hundreds of families flocked to a newly opened playground and park in Waltham, Massachusetts. Children soared on the swings, flew down the slides, and competed in mini-golf – unaware of the land’s shamefully buried history. As ...
“There will be no West if this continues,” professed Elon Musk on X in September 2025. The crisis in question was none of the usual suspects—climate change, nuclear war, autocracy—but rather dropping fertility rates. Musk, to his credit, has ...
The US healthcare system is a terrible value proposition. Compared to peer nations like France, Germany, and South Korea in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the US spends nearly twice as much on health care, but with...
The US healthcare system is a terrible value proposition. Compared to peer nations like France, Germany, and South Korea in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the US spends nearly twice as much on health care, but with...
In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right to clean drinking water, and called upon states and international organizations to provide safe, clean, accessible, and affordable drinking water for all. Despite this...
In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right to clean drinking water, and called upon states and international organizations to provide safe, clean, accessible, and affordable drinking water for all. Despite this...
The United States is in a unique political moment. Today, Republicans and Democrats are more divided along ideological lines than in any time in the past twenty five years. The two major parties leading the country are becoming much more adversarial...
The United States is in a unique political moment. Today, Republicans and Democrats are more divided along ideological lines than in any time in the past twenty five years. The two major parties leading the country are becoming much more adversarial...
In 2015, Malcolm Bird accidentally cut his one-year-old daughter’s finger with a nail clipper and brought her to the local emergency room to make sure that the cut wasn’t serious. At the hospital, a doctor washed the wound with water and placed ...
In 2015, Malcolm Bird accidentally cut his one-year-old daughter’s finger with a nail clipper and brought her to the local emergency room to make sure that the cut wasn’t serious. At the hospital, a doctor washed the wound with water and placed ...
Though the presidential election grabbed most of the headlines, Donald Trump wasn’t the only big winner on November 8th – marijuana legalization ballot measures passed in four states, and some did by resounding margins. Thanks to this, more t...
Though the presidential election grabbed most of the headlines, Donald Trump wasn’t the only big winner on November 8th – marijuana legalization ballot measures passed in four states, and some did by resounding margins. Thanks to this, more t...
This past summer, statues depicting a completely nude Donald Trump popped up overnight in five major American cities. The statues, commissioned by street art collective Indecline, left nothing to the imagination. In addition to this profane display...
This past summer, statues depicting a completely nude Donald Trump popped up overnight in five major American cities. The statues, commissioned by street art collective Indecline, left nothing to the imagination. In addition to this profane display...
Ryan Lewis had been exhibiting signs of clinical depression for months. Concerned about their son, his parents decided to send him to a residential treatment center to get him help. They consulted an educational expert, who referred them to the Alldr...
Ryan Lewis had been exhibiting signs of clinical depression for months. Concerned about their son, his parents decided to send him to a residential treatment center to get him help. They consulted an educational expert, who referred them to the Alldr...
As spring fast approaches, 42 million American households are beginning to plan and design their gardens. Over the last five years, Americans have planted 17 percent more home gardens, an indication that an increasing number of families place an impo...
As spring fast approaches, 42 million American households are beginning to plan and design their gardens. Over the last five years, Americans have planted 17 percent more home gardens, an indication that an increasing number of families place an impo...
Amid increasing numbers of drug use and HIV/AIDS across the country, public debates about the merits of needle exchange programs (NEPs) are reigniting. Cities like Holyoke, Massachusetts are aflame with lawsuits and disagreement about the legitimacy ...
Amid increasing numbers of drug use and HIV/AIDS across the country, public debates about the merits of needle exchange programs (NEPs) are reigniting. Cities like Holyoke, Massachusetts are aflame with lawsuits and disagreement about the legitimacy ...
Americans are fat, and getting fatter. According to the American Heart Association, 78 million adults and 13 million children in the United States are obese. This crisis is being attacked by public officials like Michelle Obama, who has made addressi...
Americans are fat, and getting fatter. According to the American Heart Association, 78 million adults and 13 million children in the United States are obese. This crisis is being attacked by public officials like Michelle Obama, who has made addressi...
Over the past six years, the Obama Administration has drawn government attention and funding toward the problem of America’s food deserts. The US Department of Agriculture defines a food desert as a district or neighborhood where at least 500 peopl...
Over the past six years, the Obama Administration has drawn government attention and funding toward the problem of America’s food deserts. The US Department of Agriculture defines a food desert as a district or neighborhood where at least 500 peopl...
When Tia came home from the doctor’s, she was in a panic. Her two children had lead poisoning from tap water. Every time the family bathed, ate, or drank a glass of water, they were being slowly poisoned. For Tia’s family, and many others who sim...
When Tia came home from the doctor’s, she was in a panic. Her two children had lead poisoning from tap water. Every time the family bathed, ate, or drank a glass of water, they were being slowly poisoned. For Tia’s family, and many others who sim...